Default Sort For Reddit

📦 v1.2.0

💾 20.44KiB

📅 2026-05-05

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Overview

Default Sort for Reddit is a small Chrome extension for keeping Reddit community and profile pages on the sort and feed view you actually use.

It applies defaults only when a plain Reddit community or profile URL opens. If you change sorting inside Reddit with the site UI, the extension leaves that manual choice alone.

Features:
- Default community sort: Top, New, Hot, Best, or Rising
- Default user profile sort: Top, New, or Hot
- Top range selector: Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year, or All
- Feed view selector: Card or Compact
- Chrome side panel settings UI
- Enable/disable from the extension icon context menu
- Local-only settings, no tracking, no remote servers

How It Works
The extension uses Manifest V3 `declarativeNetRequest` dynamic rules. Those rules redirect only matching Reddit URLs like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/example/
https://www.reddit.com/user/example/

The rules do not match already sorted URLs, so Reddit interface clicks such as `Hot`, `New`, `Top`, or `Rising` are not forced back to the extension setting.